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To: Salvation

faith alone, grace alone, scripture alone, sounds like a multiple choice question!


7 posted on 06/08/2018 9:03:28 AM PDT by rcofdayton
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To: rcofdayton

“By GRACE (a free gift) are you SAVED ( made alive in newness of spirit), by FAITH ( trust, belief in and continual adherence to)-and this is not from yourselves, it is a GIFT (undeserved, unearned favor) of God, , not by WORKS (effort to achieve Gods acceptance), so that no one can boast”. Eph 2:5

So, indeed, the scriptures show us that faith by grace are indeed the sole means of appropriating God’s favor- unless one rejects the rest of the scriptures that depict us all as dead in trespasses and sins ( dead men can do nothing). I accept that Jesus paid for my passage, and God Almighty took my unrighteousness and guilt nd poured out His Holy and Just wrath on the body f Jesus, who deserved only honor and praise, so now that Jesus who was given power by God to lay his life down willingly and then take it back up again, God the Father looks at me through the lens of the Righteousness of His Son , in whom He is well pleased.

My sins and state were punished once for all time, and He remembers them no more.

So, no, not multiple choice, but rather a singular perfect solution for the restoration of mankind, if only one believes.....


30 posted on 06/08/2018 9:35:29 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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